lamp
- Museum number
- E48337
- Description
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Leaded bronze alloy lamp; cast; in the form of a much stylised bull couchant, exaggerated and extended to form two cylindrical nozzles, with upturned oval tips (one is largely lost); oval wick-hole; rectangular filling-hole in the bull's back, hinged for a lid (missing); ears pierced; flat resting-surface, with a hole broken through; tip of one horn lost; patchy dark and light green surfaces, with much bare metal and cuprite showing.
- Production date
- 1stC BC (probably)
- Dimensions
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Height: 12.20 centimetres
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Length: 19.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- DSR analysis indicates leaded bronze composition. Previously believed to be 2nd century BC.
Analysis: copper: 82.9; lead: 3.74; tin: 6.33; zinc: <0.01.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2003 19 March-7 June, Greece, Athens, Benaki Museum, 'The Bull in the Mediterranean World'
2002-2003 14 November-6 March, Spain, Barcelona, Salo del Tinell, 'The Bull in the Mediterranean World'
G88/NEW TESTAMENT/13 (part)
- Condition
- Missing lid; hole broken through bottom; tip of one horn lost; patchy dark and light green surfaces, with much bare metal and cuprite showing.
- Acquisition date
- 1884
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- E48337
- Registration number
- 1884,0223.1
